Relates to written notice requirements for mass layoffs; includes a requirement to notify all localities in the state where the employer remitted taxes in the current or previous year and each locality that provides police, firefighting, emergency medical or ambulance services to real property where the employer has a place of business.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN SENATE
January 21, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. MAYER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to written notice require-
ments for mass layoffs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 860-b of the labor law, as added
2 by chapter 475 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
3 1. An employer may not order a mass layoff, relocation, or employment
4 loss, unless, at least ninety days before the order takes effect, the
5 employer gives written notice of the order to the following:
6 (a) affected employees and the representatives of affected employees;
7 (b) the department; [and]
8 (c) the local workforce investment boards established pursuant to the
9 federal Workforce Investment Act (P.L. 105-220) for the locality in
10 which the mass layoff, relocation, or employment loss will occur;
11 (d) each locality in the state, including municipalities and school
12 districts, to which the employer remitted taxes in the current year or
13 the previous year; and
14 (e) each locality in the state which provides police, firefighting,
15 emergency medical or ambulance services or other emergency services to
16 real property where the employer has a place of business subject to the
17 mass layoff, relocation, or employment loss, as applicable.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14822-02-0
